Foreign hosters with the ability to pay from Russia
Hello! My name is Leonid, I am the owner of the Search VPS service. Recently, I started getting a lot of questions in feedback about how to pay for foreign hosting, since Visa and MasterCard of Russian banks stopped working outside of Russia.
There are all sorts of workarounds in the form of obtaining a foreign bank card that is replenished with cryptocurrency, using a QIWI wallet and other crutches, however, in my opinion, the easiest way is an international currency bank transfer, which currently works fine for all banks, with the exception of a few under sanctions.
I want to warn you right away that a SWIFT transfer will take several days, your bank may charge a commission for sending a payment, plus intermediary banks may “bite off” something along the way, but most often these will be insignificant amounts. A definite plus in this case is the lack of conversion: if you have dollars on your account, then you can send a payment directly in this currency, and the recipient will also receive dollars.
Below I have prepared a list of foreign hosters that accept payments to a bank account. Please note that payment by bank transfer is most often not automated, for this you may need to write to technical support.
German company with its own data centers, maintaining one of the lowest prices for virtual and dedicated servers
Equipment location countries – Germany, Finland
Prices for VPS/VDS, from 4.19€ for 20 GB SSD / 2 GB RAM / 1 vCPU
Dedicated server prices, from 40.8€ for AMD Ryzen 5 3600 / 64 GB RAM / 2×512 GB NVMe SSD
French company that owns a network of data centers in different countries
Equipment location countries – Australia, UK, Germany, Canada, Poland, Singapore, France
Prices for VPS/VDS, from 3€ for 20 GB SSD / 2 GB RAM / 1 vCPU
Prices for dedicated servers, from 64.99€ for Intel Xeon E-2136 / 32 GB RAM / 2×512 GB NVMe SSD
A company from the Netherlands with a large network of data centers providing hosting, virtual and dedicated servers, as well as many other services
Equipment location countries – UK, Germany, Netherlands, Singapore, USA
Prices for VPS/VDS, from 4.92€ for 20 GB SSD / 1 GB RAM / 1 vCPU
Prices for dedicated servers, from 39.59€ for Intel Xeon E3-1230v2 / 16 GB RAM / 2×1 TB SATA
Hosting provider hosting equipment in a large number of countries
Equipment location countries – Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Brazil, Great Britain, Germany, Hong Kong, Greece, Denmark, Israel, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Canada, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mexico, Nigeria, Netherlands, Norway, Netherlands, Norway, UAE, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Romania, Singapore, USA, Turkey, Ukraine, Finland, France, Chile, Switzerland, Sweden, South Africa, Japan
VPS/VDS prices, from $3 for 10 GB SSD / 0.5 GB RAM / 1 vCPU
Prices for dedicated servers, from $10.19 for Intel Atom C2350 / 4 GB RAM / 1×128 GB SSD
A provider with its own data center that provides virtual servers
Equipment location country – Lithuania
Prices for VPS/VDS, from 3.99€ for 20 GB SSD / 2 GB RAM / 1 vCPU
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Shared hosting, VPS and dedicated server company
Equipment location countries – Netherlands, Romania
VPS/VDS prices, from $1.99 for 15 GB HDD / 0.25 GB RAM / 1 vCPU
Dedicated server prices starting at $38 for Intel Xeon E3-1230v6 / 8 GB RAM / 1×128 GB SSD
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Company providing CDN, streaming platform, virtual and dedicated servers in many countries
Equipment location countries – Australia, Bulgaria, Brazil, Great Britain, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Spain, Italy, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Romania, Singapore, USA, Turkey, Ukraine, France, South Africa, South Korea, Japan
Prices for VPS/VDS, from 3.25€ for 20 GB SSD / 0.5 GB RAM / 1 vCPU
Prices for dedicated servers, from 96€ for Intel Xeon E3-1270v6 / 64 GB RAM / 2×500 GB SSD
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Shared hosting and VPS/VDS company
Equipment location country – Lithuania
VPS/VDS prices, from $4 for 20 GB SSD / 2 GB RAM / 1 vCPU
A company with Russian-speaking support that provides various hosting services
Equipment location countries – Bulgaria, Latvia, Netherlands, Poland, USA, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Switzerland
Prices for VPS/VDS, from 1€ for 100 GB HDD / 0.5 GB RAM / 1 vCPU (minimum payment period – 3 months)
Prices for dedicated servers, from 49.9€ for Intel Xeon E3 v2/v3 / 32 GB RAM / 2×200 GB SSD
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Hosting from Hungary with Russian-speaking support
Equipment location country – Hungary
VPS/VDS prices, from 8.99€ for 20 GB NVMe SSD / 2 GB RAM / 1 vCPU
Prices for dedicated servers, from 79€ for Intel Xeon E3-1230v2 / 8 GB RAM / 1×120 GB SSD
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Lithuanian company providing virtual and dedicated servers and hosting services
Equipment location countries – Lithuania, Netherlands, USA
VPS/VDS prices, from 2.54€ for 25 GB SSD / 1 GB RAM / 1 vCPU (minimum payment period – 3 months)
Prices for dedicated servers, from 40.5€ for Intel Pentium G3260T / 8 GB RAM / 2×1 TB HDD
Equipment location countries – Bulgaria, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Singapore, USA, France
Prices for VPS/VDS, from 5€ for 10 GB SSD / 1 GB RAM / 1 vCPU
Prices for dedicated servers, from 35.5€ for Intel Xeon E3-1230v2 / 16 GB RAM / 1×1 TB HDD
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VPS and dedicated server company
Equipment location countries – Latvia
Prices for VPS/VDS, from 7.95€ for 10 GB SSD / 1 GB RAM / 1 vCPU
Prices for dedicated servers, from 60€ for Intel Xeon E3-1230v6 / 16 GB RAM / 2×250 GB SSD
A company with its own data center and Russian-speaking support
Equipment location country – Moldova
Prices for VPS/VDS, from 4€ for 10 GB SSD / 1.5 GB RAM / 1 vCPU
Prices for dedicated servers, from 26.4€ for Intel Pentium G3220 / 4 GB RAM / 1×1 TB HDD
Estonian hosting, VPS/VDS and dedicated server provider
Equipment location country – Estonia
VPS/VDS prices, from 2.95€ for 20 GB SSD / 1 GB RAM / 1 vCPU
Prices for dedicated servers, from 49€ for Intel Xeon E3 v2/v3 / 8 GB RAM / 1×4 TB HDD
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Company from Estonia with Russian-speaking staff
Equipment location country – Estonia
Prices for VPS/VDS, from 9.9€ for 50 GB SSD / 4 GB RAM / 1 vCPU
Prices for dedicated servers, from 49€ for Intel Xeon E3 / 8 GB RAM / 1×480 GB SSD
Virtual server provider with Russian-language support
Equipment location countries – Moldova, Russia, Romania, USA
Prices for VPS/VDS, from 5€ for 20 GB NVMe SSD / 1 GB RAM / 1 vCPU
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Naturally, paying by bank transfer is many times more complicated than by card, but in the current conditions, when you need to pay for foreign hosting, this may actually be the only option.
If you know more hosters that support this option – write in the comments, I’ll add it.